WEBVTT
BLEM?
GULSTAN: KCRA'S VICKI GONZALEZ
FOLLOWED THE WAYWARD BALLOT AND
HAS THE POSTAL SERVICE'S
RESPONSE.
VICKI: EL DORADO COUNTY IS
EXPERIENCING A RECORD-YEAR I
VOTER REGISTRATION.
WILLIAM SCHULTZ AND HIS ELECTION
TEAM ARE ALREADY SORTING THROUGH
MORE THAN 33,000 MAIL-IN
BALLOTS.
>> PEOPLE ARE JUST STREAMING IN
TO PUT THEIR VOTE-BY-MAIL
BALLOTS IN THE BOX
VICKI: INCLUDING ONE VOTER,
NAMED BEVERLY, IN SOUTH LAKE
TAHO
BEVERLY WAS LIKE THE TENS OF
THOUSANDS OF EL DORADO COUNTY
RESIDENCE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF
EARLY VOTING.
THE PROBLEM IS WHEN SHE MAILED
HER BALLOT FROM SOUTH LAKE
TAHOE, IT HIT AN ABSURD DETOUR.
INSTEAD OF ARRIVING IN
PLACERVILLE AT THE REGISTRAR'S
OFFICE --
>> THIS IS COMING FROM EL DORADO
COUNTY.
VICKI: BEVERLY'S BALLOT ENDED UP
AT LELAND NEIL'S WORK.
>> AND I WAS LIKE, WOW.
REALLY?
VICKI: IN OGDEN, UTAH.
AND THAT'S WHAT GOT ME.
I WAS LOOKING AT THE FRONT AND
IT SAID PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA.
I WAS LIKE, HOW DID IT GET TO
UTAH?
>> WE HAD NO IDEA.
VICKI: THE EL DORADO COUNTY
REGISTRAR OF VOTERS EXPLAINS,
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE HAS AN UNUSUA
MAIL ROUTE.
FIRST GOING TO THE U.S. POSTAL
OFFICE IN RENO, THEN STOPPING IN
WEST SACRAMENTO, BEFORE ARRIVING
IN PLACERVILLE
>> THE POSTAL SERVICE, THAT'S
WHAT THEY DO.
VICKI: HOWEVER THIS TIME, THE
BALLOT ENDED UP MORE THAN 650
MILES AWAY, JUST OUTSIDE SALT
LAKE CITY.
>> I'D BE WORRIED, DID MY BALLOT
GO TO THE RIGHT PLACE?
DID IT GET RECORDED?
VICKI: THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
TELLS KCRA THIS APPEARS TO BE AN
ISOLATED CASE, WHERE THE WRONG
BARCODE WAS SPRAYED ON THE MAIL
PIECE DURING PROCESSING,
RESULTING IN DELIVERY ERROR.
THE BAR CODE IS ON THE BOTTOM OF
THE ENVELOPE, WITH LELAND'S UTAH
ZIP CODE, 84401.
>> I WAS LIKE, GEE, THIS CIVIC
DUTY, I GOT TO GET THIS BACK SO
THIS CAN COUNT.
BECAUSE THIS ELECTION IS LIKE,
REALLY CLOSE.
VICKI: A WAYWARD BALLOT, SLOWLY
MAKING ITS WAY TO BECOME A VOTE
IN CALIFORNIA.
>> EVERYBODY DESERVES THE RIGHT
TO VOTE, AND THEY DESERVE TO DO
IT IN A TIMELY MANNER.

California woman’s mail-in ballot found in Utah

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Updated: 9:13 AM PST Jan 4, 2017

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. —

A woman from South Lake Tahoe mailed in her vote, but it ended up hundreds of miles away in another state.